Thank you so much , this is really a very smart idea

Please i want your help with a code which i can use to store the system clock in a variable which i can use to add a 30 mints to it. as i want to my application to be shutdown after 30 mints when i click Start button but if the user click End button in another form then the timing should stop , and using the timer control was not helpful becuase it dose not accept any compare condition and just close the application. so i thought to ignore the timer control and use a code which i can store the system clock in a variable and insert that varialbe in a loop and inside the loop i compare the variable with specific value, if it is the desired value then close the application else go again and read the system clock , DO u think its good thinking. if u think its applicale , please help me a code to store the system clock in a variable. please advise and thank u for ur help Ali

This is a very smart way , but how can i record the time from the system clock and what will be the data type for the variable which i will store the time in it to compare with the current type. Please advise and thank you for your help. Ali

please help me with code which i can use to shutdown the application after 30mints, my application contains multi-forms and i want this code to be run when i click the start button on the second form "Form2". Please note that i'm using the following code under the next or back buttons to switch between forms < unload me Form3.show > as for example if i put timing code in Form2 , will this code stop when i click the next button which contains the code above? Please advise and thank you for your help Ali

Thank you so much, this was really helpful and solve the problem but the point now is , when i place the path for the image in the code. i can't run this application on any ther machine also when adding the setup wizard to the solution i added the image within this wizard. but when i tried to run the application on another machine after installing it, the application didn't work, so how i can over come this problem, please Advise and thanks for your help Ali

i set a picturebox control on my form and i load an image to it from the image property , i also set the Visible property to "True" but when i debug the application , i can't see the image in the run mode, only the border of the picturebox. The extention of the image is "JPG" and "Gif" , and i can open those pictuers easly as i'm using windows XP, but i still can't see the picture on the run mode. is there a code i should use to load the image in the picturebox at run time , and if yes where to place this code, in the main code body of the form or behind the picturebox itself. please advise and thank you again i could found a possible code which is < Dim img As Image img = picturebox1.image > but when i use it i have an errore which state that Image is not a type. please advise and thank you.:) Ali

The extention is "JPG" and "Gif" , and i can open those pictuers easly as i'm using windows XP, but i still can't see the picture on the run mode. is there a code i should to load the image in the picturebox at run time , and if yes where to place this code, in the main code body of the form or behind the picturebox itself. please advise and thank you again Ali

i set a picturebox control on my form and i load an image to it from the image property , i also set the Visible property to "True" but when i debug the application , i can't see the image in the run mode, only the border of the picturebox. Please Advise Ali